Clippings.io - transferring Kindle highlights to Evernote in the
blink of an eye

Miloslav Nic

Several months ago Evernote
became my primary tool for information housekeeping. I also read
a
lot of non-fiction books and regularly highlight interesting
sections for later reuse or browsing.

And a week ago I began to tweet regularly and started to look
for an efficient workflow for transforming books' proto-tweets to
real ones. In my post about
these attempts I mentioned a discovery of very useful tool for
sharing notes between Kindle and Evernote - Clippings.io and had promised to
write an article about it.

I am using it now regularly as an enthusiastic user with
thousands of clippings transferred:

I feel it is time to fulfill my promise. But I also feel that I
deserve rest after an eventful week. Fortunately, using Clippings.io is so simple that it
does not require a lot of words to describe its usefulness.

The service can be used for free but as I was immediately aware
of the excellent fit to my needs and as the subscription price is
not going to ruin me (or anyone who can afford to buy Kindle books)
I have immediately subscribed
their chrome extension, which made transferring clippings
hassle free:

Each morning after horizontal reading session I click on the
installed toolbar button and in a minute I can see everything in
Evernote:

Kindle notes can be also browsed, searched, and edited directly
at Clippings.io:

And a final suggestion. Good books are excellent sources for
tweeting. You get interesting tweets nobody else is tweeting. Also
you have to think hard to fit them into 140 characters limit. It
may not sound as advantage, but you are pressed to get the essence
of a sentence or paragraph and will find soon it helps clarity of
thinking tremendously.

With plenty of notes in Evernote it is easy to find an
interesting note for my Buffer if
store of tweets gets low. I am trying hard to tweet regularly,
after
a week of tweeting my tweet count is approaching
1000. If you are a company founder and
the person responsible for its public relations there is no excuse
for some slack.

I was a scientist in one of my previous incarnations and so
suffering from compulsion to provide sources for anything, even my
tweets. So I export to Evernote
with all possibilities offered by Clippings.io switched on. In the
next step I change tags created from books title to a shortened
URL. And the source URL is immediately ready to use: